“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.”
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“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
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“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
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“You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!”
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!”
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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